Post by Keith on Jul 1, 2005 17:57:23 GMT -5
Independence Day Video - Showing this Weekend Only! (due to all the bandwidth I have been using.) ;D
I know its not as vintage as the other stuff (please no tomato throwing now)
but it is the first jetliner and the first modern era Air Force One so here goes… have a happy July 4th everybody! Hey… I can land a heavy almost as good as a tail dragger. ;D
Air Force One
In 1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for the creation of the Presidential Pilot Office to provide air transportation to the President and his staff.
For most of the next 20 years, various four-engine propeller-driven aircraft were used for presidential air travel. In 1962, the first jet aircraft, a Boeing 707, was purchased for use as Air Force One.
Boeing 707
America entered the age of the jet transport on July 15, 1954, when the Boeing 707 prototype, the model 367-80, made its maiden flight from Renton Field, south of Seattle. It featured a revolutionary design: 35 degree swept back wings with engines hung from them on pylons. The design was first used on the Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber, then the famous B-52 Stratofortress. Boeing was convinced there was market for jet airliners, so it took a huge gamble. It did all the design work and built the prototype on speculation - no orders in hand. It paid off because the 707 was quickly snapped up by airlines around the world.
VIEW VIDEO HERE - (5.6MB - 320x240)
I know its not as vintage as the other stuff (please no tomato throwing now)
but it is the first jetliner and the first modern era Air Force One so here goes… have a happy July 4th everybody! Hey… I can land a heavy almost as good as a tail dragger. ;DAir Force One
In 1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for the creation of the Presidential Pilot Office to provide air transportation to the President and his staff.
For most of the next 20 years, various four-engine propeller-driven aircraft were used for presidential air travel. In 1962, the first jet aircraft, a Boeing 707, was purchased for use as Air Force One.
Boeing 707
America entered the age of the jet transport on July 15, 1954, when the Boeing 707 prototype, the model 367-80, made its maiden flight from Renton Field, south of Seattle. It featured a revolutionary design: 35 degree swept back wings with engines hung from them on pylons. The design was first used on the Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber, then the famous B-52 Stratofortress. Boeing was convinced there was market for jet airliners, so it took a huge gamble. It did all the design work and built the prototype on speculation - no orders in hand. It paid off because the 707 was quickly snapped up by airlines around the world.
VIEW VIDEO HERE - (5.6MB - 320x240)
With the prices of fuel going up and up there is no way in the world that we as a people can continue to use the amounts of fuel that are being pumped into those things for very long. I just wonder what is the next means of "jet" propultion? Pulse engines or something of the sort? I makes one wonder huh? Glad you liked the Video by the way.